The True Ducks. 1 9 1 



o ubtedly be found to occur there. This 

 pecies is met with throughout the Shan 

 States, as far as Kengtung at least, where 

 Lieut. J. H. Whitehead informs me that 

 he has shot it. 



The Garganey is found over the greater 

 part of Europe and Asia, extending in 

 summer to about the 60th degree of 

 north latitude. In winter it is found 

 over a large part of Northern Africa and 

 Southern Asia, extending to the Philip- 

 pines, Borneo, Java, and other islands. 



This species commences to arrive in 

 India in August, but it is not till October, 

 or even November, that they occur 

 commonly in the southern portions of the 

 Empire. At the end of March, or in 

 the first half of x\pril, a general movement 

 north takes place, but a few birds remain 

 till May. 



There are many instances on record of 

 the late, or early, occurrence of the Gar- 

 ganey in various parts of the Empire, and 

 it has been thought that some birds of 

 this species may remain to breed in favour- 

 able localities. Moreover, both Colonel 

 Tickell at Moulmein and Colonel Irby 

 in Oudh state that they met with young 

 birds of this species. Both these natural- 

 ists, however, may have very pardonably 



